The difference between the two probably works out to less than 10 milliseconds on most servers, from a quick study that I ran on some HP servers that were brand new last summer, with the faster times using the filesystem. Course, the flexibility gained in managing the database version caused us to ask, would any of our users notice a 10 millisecond difference in response? Answer was; only the paranoid would notice the difference ;-). Course our user population was relatively small (100 - 500 concurrently signed on).
Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Chris Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] $_SESSION vs Database Call Just wondering, what is faster / more effecient, storing a value in the session variable which gets stored on the filesystem (from what i understand) or database calls to re-get the information? Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
